Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog
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Image metadata on the Web: URL as identifier
Before you start thinking about common metadata for your images (creator, date created, caption, license), first consider what I think is the most important piece of metadata: A unique identifier for your image. And please make it a URL. Why? First, you want to avoid duplicates in search engine results. You’ll be using the same…
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Farm animal photos (and semantic markup)
A pig on a technical blog? Sorry for being off-topic (and don’t expect good photos, I’m just a point-and-shoot amateur): I’ll publish a few images now and then because I want to experiment (in public) with semantic markup for both articles and images. I’d like to find out what search engines make of my HTML…
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Heath, Bizer: Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space
Tom Heath, Christian Bizer – Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space: “This book gives an overview of the principles of Linked Data as well as the Web of Data that has emerged through the application of these principles. The book discusses patterns for publishing Linked Data, describes deployed Linked Data applications…
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My comment on “PHP is meant to die” by Software Gunslinger
Software Gunslinger – PHP is meant to die: “No matter how good or clever your idea looked on paper, if you want to keep the processes running forever they will crash, and will do it really fast under load, because of known or unknown reasons. That’s nothing you can really control, it’s because PHP is…
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C. Lawrence Wenham: Signs that you’re a good programmer
C. Lawrence Wenham – Signs that you’re a good programmer: “In fact, another way to become emotionally detached from code is to put your interest into the outcome instead. The outcome you should be thinking of is a lady who’s going to get fired if she doesn’t deliver the output of your program at 4:59pm…
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David Lieb: Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think
David Lieb – Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think: “Put your user in the middle of your flow. Make them press an extra button, make them provide some inputs, let them be part of the service-providing, rather than a bystander to it. If they are part of the flow,…
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Derek Sivers: Seeking inspiration?
Derek Sivers – Seeking inspiration?: “The inspiration is not the receiving of information. The inspiration is applying what you’ve received. People think that if they keep reading articles, browsing books, listening to talks, or meeting people, that they’re going to suddenly get inspired. […] You have to pause the input, and focus on your output.”